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Markdown from scratch · Chapter 3

Lists

A lot of notes are mostly lists, whether it's shopping, steps to follow or points from a meeting. Markdown knows two kinds of lists, and both can be nested inside each other.

A simple bullet list

Every line starts with a hyphen and a space. Asterisks or plus signs work too, and when you edit, nexlore keeps whichever character you used.

How you write it
- Flour
- Water
- Salt
How it looks
  • Flour
  • Water
  • Salt

A list with numbers

Here every line starts with a number and a full stop. The numbers don't even have to be right, because counting starts from the first one.

How you write it
1. Make the starter
2. Leave it overnight
3. Knead the dough
How it looks
  1. Make the starter
  2. Leave it overnight
  3. Knead the dough

Nesting lists inside each other

If you indent a line with a tab or four spaces, it belongs to the item above. You can mix both kinds of lists while doing so.

How you write it
1. Shopping
	- Flour
	- Salt
2. Baking
	- Oven at 250 degrees
How it looks
  1. Shopping
    • Flour
    • Salt
  2. Baking
    • Oven at 250 degrees

Lore saysIn the editor you move an item in and back out with the Indent and Outdent buttons in the toolbar. nexlore writes the indentation the way your file already has it, with tabs or with spaces.

Several paragraphs in one item

A list item may consist of several paragraphs. You indent the further paragraphs as far as the item's text.

How you write it
- Feed the starter

  Morning and evening, always
  in the same ratio.
- Bake bread
How it looks

  • Feed the starter

    Morning and evening, always in the same ratio.

  • Bake bread

Lists with boxes to tick are an extension of Markdown and have a chapter of their own, Tasks.